3 Top Spy Agency Officials Arrested

Prosecutors arrested three high-ranking officials of South Korea’s spy agency, charging that they paid a Korean American businessman to hold news conferences in Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul in December in which it was alleged that President Kim Dae Jung’s presidential campaign was funded by the leader of Communist North Korea. The businessman was arrested on a libel charge in February. The country’s past military dictators considered Kim a threat to their conservative regimes and called him a North Korean sympathizer in his three previously unsuccessful presidential bids.